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I think they believe the model will work for a few reasons - very debatable how wise it is, of course, but it is hard to imagine how else we could spend large sums without falling foul of FFP, given how small our revenue is outside of player transactions. 1. Transfer fee inflation, with fees continuously inflating massively over time, just by existing he may be worth £20m+ in 3-5 years even if we have just repeatedly loaned him and he's not really kicked on much from his current level, but he's built up Championship+PL experience 2. FFP rules. If we sell him in 3 years, and the amortization window is 5 years, then the book value of him is just ~£8m. So, if we sell him for £8m+ we have generated profit in the books 3. If even one of them bangs, they either make it in the Chelsea first team, saving us a £60m+ purchase, possibly in 3-5 years time with inflation that might be a £70m+ purchase, OR if they bang but we don't need them because we already are stacked there, we sell them for huge profit, which if it takes us to a net neutral in terms of real cash spend would be a huge win in terms of how we stand in FFP (where we'd have huge 'profits' recorded) 4. We put sell on clauses in all contracts at 20%, and just by having a huge number of players come and go, we stand to get pleasant revenues every year just because they briefly played here

Lukaku had to agree to a giant pay cut to get his loan deal last year and get the 37m release clause added to his contract. His wages were supposed to go all the way down to about £6m per year or about £120k pw. Still a rip off but I'm not really fussed about rushing to sell him tbh, there will always be demand for a cunt like Rom, as its so hard to find players for that position and he has that history scoring, there will always be someone who thinks about taking a punt at the kind of money we're asking for.

That's the model my man. Buy for 20 sell for 20+ in 3 years, counts as profit in FFP, stick a sell on clause on as well and we take in another 5m in a few years. Not much more sophistication to our approach than that tbh. If we didn't have loan limit rules I am pretty sure we would have a squad of 100 players.

Will be sensational when he's fit and we'll miss him when he's out, but better to have him than not have him imo Shame we didn't move for him before the US tour so he could spend the time with the boys. Hate it when players get bought after preseason. Seen so many top players talk about the importance of making preseason for your club, how if you miss it you don't really feel like part of the group when you join up and it leaves you months behind the others. Better to get him now than never but I really wish we would move more decisively in the first week of the transfer window, in cases like Neto, Caicedo, Lavia we literally paid full asking price and could have just got them in and been done with it and set them up for success.

Kellyman 100% loaned out, he plays where we are the most stacked, would be surprised if he ever actually plays for us, surely he's the standard loan-loan-sell player.

If Di Marzio wasn't a biased moron just puppeting whatever he's told, he'd write something like: Napoli wants to buy Lukaku but can't afford him without selling Osimhen. They start the season today with no top striker available to play for the club, with Osimhen having missed preseason and agreement with player that he would be sold this summer. No one has been willing to pay the asking price for him and Napoli are getting increasingly desperate. Club is in SERIOUS trouble after finishing 10th last season and already at risk of major fall out with Conte after failing to land his man in time for the season start.

Respectfully, I'll drive him there myself

Is he? He seems very two footed to me, indeed many of his assists from RW came from his right foot, with him rarely cutting in to shoot on his left. I think the club like him because they think he can play either LW or RW well. He also presses well in the high press Maresca wants to play. Personally, I'm just worried about his injuries.

What's your stance on Pedro Neto? He wasn't on the list was he (because of injuries)?

In my recollection, even under Pep, Sterling was kind of frustrating, going on a run of form and then losing it for weeks or months, and then hitting it again... But they had so many good players they could carry it. He has never been and never could be the star man of a team as far as I have seen following him since forever, but he's always been a good guy to have in a squad. Mudryk is one of those guys that, best case, starts to look like a real player at 26/27, after years of good coaching. He's definitely not the kind of buy we should be making if we want to go after young people, we want early bloomers who display an unusual understanding of the game and a calmness in clutch situations, like Cole Palmer, where age just doesn't matter. Honestly I think Mudryk could be a very good PL player later in his career but it will take time, effort, and game time. Definitely one I would press the return button on if we could.

We definitely should keep him and I'd be baffled if we didn't. Also this season could see his value peak because he will be playing in a system that suits him perfectly. Personally I'd take all of Sterling, Mudryk, Madueke and Neto into the season, 2 players for each position, with plenty of inevitable injuries between them. Next season we should clear some out to make space for the young superstars we've got arriving, but not now. We have a LOT of other players to clear out before we look at Noni Madueke.

You'll never be happy about anything my man Neto has more assists last year than Madueke has had in his entire career I think. They play quite differently though and personally I hope & expect we are keeping both.

I guess the clubs theory is if you have 60 extremely injury prone players, at any one time you'll only really have a squad of 25

What the hell I took my dog for a walk, came back and we fucking signed someone out of no where lmao Need a moment to process how I feel about this signing. He plays mostly RW right?

Feels like 70mins+ of the XI for City would probably be in order? Not gonna lie I have absolutely NO IDEA what our best line up is, even when everyone is available and ready to play. Reece will be out due to suspension, and Cole, NJ + Cucu aren't going to be ready until the City game itself Maresca said, which I assume means sub appearances at best vs City. I guess probably this means Colwill LB/LCB and Malo RB/inverting? Probably Lavia, Caicedo and KDH play for their pressing / physicality and Enzo drops to bench? Who knows. Nkunku and Madueke surely both start too. It is refreshing that we will have to put some potentially very good players on the bench soon, unlike last year where we usually had every good player we had on the pitch and then a bench full of filler. I'll go with this but I'm not thrilled about it: Jorg; Malo, Fofana, Tosin, Colwill; Lavia, Caicedo, KDH; Nkunku Guiu Madueke.

If he was staying you'd be posting that its a joke, never good enough, poor ownership, total disgrace, obviously should be buying someone etc etc

Is Disasi our 'veteran' CB now?

Actually Maresca's system is heavily focused on man marking...

Based on what we've seen Chalobah is definitely (at least) competitive vs the other CBs. Feel like he is better defensively than all of them. Shame he wasn't even given a chance.

Was your mind made up on Maresca before he even took the job? Kind of feels like no matter what he says or does you would be annoyed? I agree with everything he said tbh, I don't think he is making excuses, just answering questions when put to him in a pretty straight forward and honest way. Also don't disagree he'll probably be sacked in <2 years, probably ~1, he seems like a nice man so I hope it works out with him but obviously history teaches us that it is unlikely at Chelsea. Personally I like that we've moved to playing positional football. Whether Maresca is up to the scale of the job I wont even start to judge until he's had at least a few competitive games, and even then really don't think it makes sense to judge too much until the new year. Everyone is pissed off but its not his fault that the club has repeatedly sacked managers, spent a tonne of money and a lot of it quite badly, and failed to tackle some simple fundamentals. Also I don't really care what happens in the Inter game, why do you? I usually only watch them to get an eye on some of the young players that might come through in the future, like Guiu, or when we have a new manager to have a look at how he might be setting them up - which turned out to be pointless last year as Poch played one system in preseason and then abandoned it as soon as the league started. They are training games, essentially an open televised training session. It is well known good or bad preseasons have no correlation with results in the actual season. I don't really care what the result is vs Inter as long as no one gets injured and we get fitness into the legs of those who are a bit behind and we want fit for City.

Yeah he said after the game that the line was way too high and that he was trying to coach it out of them, "a habit they have from last season" Also in the press conf the other day he mentioned how due to the insane schedule travelling to/around the US and playing every 2 days that the only real training they've done is the 2 weeks before the tour with some players, since then mostly they've just had time for little video sessions to talk about ideas and not actually practice them on the pitch and so it is not really possible to improve the problems until they get back for the ~10 days they've got in Cobham before the first real game. That means some of them (Caicedo, Enzo, all the ones who joined during the tour) have had at best light touch training on the field in the new strategy, and some video sessions. I hate these intense preseason tours abroad tbh. If the club really want to be bold and do things differently they should be contrarian by being the only top club to give their managers a proper pre season, letting them spend it all at Cobham, and just play a friendly a week in the UK or something. Matters a little less a couple of years into an established managers reign maybe but when you change manager every season it is really dumb to give them a shit preseason every year.

Mudryk so bad in 1v1s, only has one idea and its too predictable: cut inside and get a shot off, never take a man on the outside and then decide what to do after...

Mudryk loves to disappoint :(

I mean I never really thought about how Sterling nails his wife before but if you want my guess he is the kind of guy that blows his load as soon as he is fully inside and then just rolls over and goes to sleep In the morning he gloats about how he rocked her world and genuinely believes it (She has a secret toy in a cupboard)

Look at that progression from GK through the field up to Guiu for the shot... The potential is OBVIOUS, I don't care what anyone says.